All the items on this page are from a private collection.

Some are shipwreck finds, others, from land finds.

ALL items have been confirmed as being legally obtained.

Please note this page is graphic intensive and may take as long as 2 min's to load at 56Kbps.

and finally, code numbers with cobs refer to listing numbers in Dan Sedwicks, "Practical Book of Cobs", 4th edition.


circa 1525, Unknown Bahama Wreck

Tumbaga Burial Idol - Land Find

1200's - 1500's

Tumbaga Bar

Assayer - BVO      Owner - Hernan Cortez

Reign - Charles V

2295.2 grams (5.06 lb) - 73.4% silver, 6.2% gold

 

Assayer stamp, markings.

Assayer bite on corner.

 

 

circa 1550, "Golden Fleece Wreck"

 

Silver Splash - 532 grams w/partial stamps

 

partial stamps for Charles 1

 

 

Nuestra Senora de Atocha, Sept. 6, 1622

8 reale, Potosi, Assayer T (1618-1621), 22.7g

P21

 

Atocha sister ship, 1500fsw, ROV recovered

4 reale, Potosi, 8.7g

 

 

Nuestra Senora de Concepcion, 1641

Rigging pin w/lock

Cargo hook

Deck nails

Copper sheathing

 

Duke Long signed print,

8 reale, shard

 

 

Port Royal, Jamaica,  June 4th, 1692

Pewter tankard, accorns, stamp

Chinese Bowl

Dutch East Indies, VOC, Pistol

 

Chinese Jarlet, Quing Dynasty

"Live a Long and Prosperous Life"

Pewter Plate

Glass Ink Well

Musket Balls

Pipe bowls/fragments/stamps

 

8 reale, Potosi, Assayer V, 1679

P39

(2) 8 reale clump, 16(79)

P37

 

 

July 30, 1715 Spanish Fleet

Kang Hsi - Beach find

Keel spike

Deck pin

 

Musket part

Partial buckle

Pottery Shards

Rigging and bolt

Spike

 

Partial Pewter Plate Rim

Spike

 

Lead patch w/canvass imprint

Animal (meal) bones

Copper sheathing

(2) encrusted 1 or 2 reales in coral

Copper Fork

 

Drawer Pull, Captains Cabin

Copper sheath w/stamp

Musket Balls

Hemp rope fragment

Copper nails

Cannon balls

Partial candlestick holder

Copper nail head

 

Silver Ewer - E110

 

 

 

July 15, 1733 Spanish Fleet

Fire brick

 

Leather shoe sole - Art McKee

Pewter spoon fragments

Casted pewter cufflinks

Kang Hsi fragments

Art McKee

 

 

Cob Collection

 1 reale - Mexico

Assayer - F   1589 - 1617 (various periods)

 

8 reale - Potosi

Assayer B (4th period)

1589 - 1592(?)     P12

 

2 reales - Toledo

Assayer - C  1591- 1596

1 reale - Toledo

Assayer - C    1591- 1596

8 reale - Potosi

Assayer - B

1596(?) - 1600(?)     P14

 

4 reales - 1715 fleet

Mexico - Assayer F

1610 - 1617    M17

 

8 reale, 1715 fleet

Mexico - Assayer F

1610 - 1617    M17 

1 reale, 16(3?)x

Mexico - Assayer - P    M19

8 reales - Potosi

Assayer - R   (1648)

1646 - 1648     P31

8 reales - Potosi

Assayer - O w/center dot

1649 - 1651     P35

Minor Transitional - 2 reale

Potosi - Assayer E, 1654

P37a

8 reale, 1684

    Lima - Assayer - V

L6

1 reale - 1673

Potosi - Assayer E

P37b

1 reale - 167x

Potosi - Assayer E

P37b

8 reale - Potosi

Assayer VR - 1696     P40

8 reales, 1715 fleet

Mexico - Assayer J

1705 - 1715 (1724)     M22

8 reales - Mexico

Assayer - J

1705 - 1724    M22

8 reale, 1715 fleet

Beach Find

(3) 8 reales, (1) 4 reale clump,

1715 fleet - Art McKee

8 reale, 1715 fleet, Eight Reale Corp.

8 reales - 1715 fleet

Beach find

(2) 2 reales - 1715 fleet

Encrusted cobs - 1715 fleet

 1 reale, 1732

Potosi - Assayer - M    P44

 

8 reales

possible counterfeit

8 reale - ?

1 reale

1 reale, PLVS

Maravedis, several dated

 

Looking for info. on this cob

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1 reale, thin

Looking for info. on this cob

EMAIL ME

 

 

 

Bowls, Bottles, Jars

Encrusted Ming Dynasty Bowl

 

unknown Dutch bottle

clay Duck Bowl

1600's

Land find

clay Fish Bowl

1600's

Land find

 

Green glass bottle

David recovery

 

dark glass square bottle

dark glass, tall bottle

dark glass, medium bottle

dark glass, short bottle

green glass Onion bottle

 

early 1700's Olive jar, "qE" stamp

   

 

 

early 1600's live jar

 

 

Misc. Artifacts

 

Green Jade Pendant

1554 Padre Island Wreck Spikes

Door knocker

Navigational Dividers

Navigational Dividers

 

Torpedo bottles and spike

HMS Rhone - 1867

Burt Kilbride gift

Spanish Colonial Brass stirrup

1600's pipe fragments

Copper pitcher - Land find

Pistol - 186?

Fossilized camels teeth

Military Buttons

Training Ordinance

 

Aztec Copper Axe Money

circa 1200 A.D.

Picture Coming Soon!

Rapier Sword Blade

1690's Spanish Military Wreck

 

16th-17th C. Navigator's Cannon

 

16th-17th C. Portuguese Cannon

 

17th C. Netherlands Signal Cannon

 

 


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